« Danser la relation » by Marie Mazzella di Bosco

“…In them, dance is a tool for constructing special relational modes: through the body in motion, subtle interpersonal negotiations are at play, underlying broader relational issues that prove to be fundamental if one pays attention to the accounts and actions of the dancers. In a brief ethnography of the gestures, postures and sensory perceptions at work, this article analyses how danced interactions are induced, begun, developed and interpreted, thus shedding light on the nature of these relational modes proper to dance.…”
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La culture de la patate douce et du maïs chez les Krahô by Ana Gabriela Morim de Lima

“…In the context of recent ethnological debate, Krahô’s ethnography offers original elements for thinking about other forms of human-plant interaction that, going beyond human exceptionalism, reveal a general effort to produce kinship ties with cultivated plants.…”
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Tutti i colori del verde. Il ruolo del verde urbano nei processi di cittadinanza nella città di Bolzano by Roberta Raffaetà

“…Through an ethnographic approach (part of a interdisciplinary project), the article illustrates how the way in which people in Bolzano make sense and use the urban green is the result of historically stratified influences that are entangled to contemporary reinterpretations made on the basis of actual socio-political challenges. The ethnography suggests that plants and parks are not simply a background to human affairs, rather, these participate to human undertakings with their specific spacetime. …”
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Making a Home in the Taiga: Movements, Paths and Signs among Orochen-Evenki Hunters and Herders of Zabaikal Krai (South East Siberia) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“…Although under the Russian Tsars Orochen-Evenki hunters and herders were referred to negatively as wanderers; today my ethnography demonstrates how movements of animals and humans are crucial for the success of their subsistence, place making and worldview. …”
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Using Qualitative Research in Planning and Evaluating Extension Programs by Lisa A. Guion, Lamont Flowers, David C. Diehl, Debra McDonald

“…Qualitative research is a useful tool for understanding extension programs and can complement quantitative methods, because qualitative information, such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography, observation, and case studies, can help faculty gain a rich understanding of the issues they are addressing. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…This research uses inter-disciplinary approach like ethnography to have full grasp of the marital dynamisms. …”
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Using Qualitative Research in Planning and Evaluating Extension Programs by Lisa A. Guion, Lamont Flowers, David C. Diehl, Debra McDonald

“…Qualitative research is a useful tool for understanding extension programs and can complement quantitative methods, because qualitative information, such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography, observation, and case studies, can help faculty gain a rich understanding of the issues they are addressing. …”
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Devenir reine kakataibo. Performance, séduction et genre en Amazonie péruvienne by Magda Helena Dziubinska

“…Through an ethnography of beauty contests organized in a Kakataibo Native Community (Peruvian Amazon), this article examines on the one hand the young Kakataibo women’s experience of femininity, and on the other hand, the relations of Kakataibo with the non-indigenous population of the region. …”
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"Seeing the voices": Egyptian Jews from one shore to another by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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La Mesure de l’humain. Objets, pratiques et logiques numériques pour le réaménagement d’une place parisienne. by Ornella Zaza

“…Based on a three-year ethnography of a local authority, this article aims to question the emergence of new digital practices in urban planning processes. …”
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Mobility and Chain Value in a Nahua Town in the Northern Highlands of Puebla, Mexico by Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego, Leticia Rivermar Pérez

“…The backdrop of this analysis is a classical ethnography of a Nahua speaking town in the Northern Highlands of Puebla, in the center of Mexico, which took place in the 1960s. …”
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Os discursos do etnólogo, do filósofo e do ficcionistana estrutura do romance Nove noites by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This paper intends to establish a dialogue between two texts: “Structure, Signand Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”, by Jacques Derrida, andNovenoites[Nine nights] by the Brazilian contemporary novelist Bernardo Carvalho.Derrida‟s text seems tohold the origins of the deconstructionist thinking of thephilosopher, and begins with an aporia pointed by Lévi-Strauss in the binarypair nature-culture to discuss the centered model of the occidental thinking.This scandal, thus, is associated to the activity of the ethnologist and has itsroots in ethnography. This text seeks, therefore, to reflect upon how the fictionseizes the discourse of human sciences in order to put it in question, in amovement similar to Derrida‟s thinking in the permanent deconstructionism‟sinterpellation to the scientific discourse. …”
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Introduction. Normes, silences, pouvoirs : pour une anthropologie critique des “violences fondées sur le genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…Thus, this article explores the advantages of questioning, through the ethnography, the processes that qualify as intolerable some practices about gender and the ways in which the speaking out is allowed and hierarchized by norms and institutions.…”
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Christian Democracy at the Local Level in the Post-dictatorship Era: Political Practices and Clientele Relations in a Chilean Comuna by David Luján Verón, Aníbal Pérez Contreras

“…Through a diachronic analysis including in-depth interviews and political ethnography we analyse how concepts and practices around the exercise of politics are understood by these politicians and analyse ow they interact with the local population. …”
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Everyday agency and centred marginality: being “youth” in the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria by Akin Iwilade

“…This paper uses an ethnography of youth gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria to explore the distinctions between being young and being youth and to argue that, in order to understand the complexities of a category whose politics have profoundly influenced the history of contemporary social transitions in many African societies, one must analytically disaggregate its various components and highlight the interesting ways in which various contexts can shape it. …”
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Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram by Stenström Kristina, Pargman Teresa Cerratto

“…Through the conceptual lens of digital existence, where the digital and online are regarded as constitutive of existential transition, we draw on ten interviews and an online ethnography to explore some of the struggles that involuntarily childless women experience with and through technology. …”
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Canaux anciens et puits récents : usages de l’eau d’irrigation, identité et territoire dans le Haouz (Maroc) by Violaine Héritier-Salama

“…By associating an ethnography of contemporary practices and a diachronic approach, this article tries to show the co-construction over time of an irrigated soil and of a social group, in a locality in Marrakesh’s plain (Haouz). …”
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Contesting digital leisure time: Parental struggles in relation to young children's play with tablets at home by Lundtofte Thomas Enemark

“…In this article, I analyse data from a video observation–based media ethnography of seven Danish children (aged 4–6) and engage with the research tradition attributed to parental mediation. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Note sulla finalità e sull’uso del gesto etnografico by Ferdinando Fava

“…These different uses of ethnography allow to question again the distinction between information and useful information that defines, in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, the difference between basic anthropological research and applied research. …”
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Ramas, familles, réseaux. Les supports sociaux de la diffusion de la santería cubaine (Cuba-Mexique) by Kali Argyriadis

“…In order to grasp the full range of our topic, an analysis in terms of networks seems, at first glance, the best option. Detailed ethnography of the relationships between social actors reveals a complex ramification of individuals and groups connected by one or several intermediary links. …”
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